Morning Edition: 28 June 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks Headby Newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is NEWSFACS in this utdate. Emergency management work continues
in Marlborough this morning in the aftermath of heavy rain,
flooding and evacuations. Marlborough, Nelson and Tasman are currently under
a state of emergency. Marlborough Mayor Nadine Taylor says monitorings
continued overnight and officials are meeting this morning to review

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the situation.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Checks will be underway right across the province of the
roading network, making sure that the roads and more importantly,
the bridges and some of the approaches are safe.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
A number of weather warnings and watches remain in place
this morning, with more heavy rain for parts of the
country and snow for Inland, Otago and Southland. There's a
heavy snow watch for Central Otago, Southland north of Lumsden,
also Inland, Dunedin and Kluther. Accusations government health targets are
worsening equitable access to care. The Nurses organizations reiterating the

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Auditor General's concerns that differences in access remain between districts
and attempts to improve wait times are making some worse off.
Organization chief executive Paul Golter says the communities missing out
on planned care are those struggling for referrals in the
first place. Golter says private sector outsourcing strip's capacity from

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the understaffed public system.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
We wants to see additional resourcing, not the rest work around.
We're putting more dollars in in any other government.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
New Zealand's longest running citizen science project, the Annual Garden
Bird Survey, is underway. It asks people nationwide to spend
one hour monitoring the birds in their garden. The information
contributes to tracking bird numbers and trends land care research.
As Angela Brandt says, healthy bird numbers are linked to

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healthy environments.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
The increase that we do see over the last ten years,
for example, really do actually respond quite closely with the
start of a lot of those predator and pastry initiatives
around the country.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I'm kay Gregory, and that's news. In sports, struggling Formula
One driver Liam Lawson has been endorsed by his Racing
Bulls team boss Laurent McKees admits it was a big
ask to force the key we to switch teams after
just two races in the Red Bull hot seat.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I think we now all agree that trimping in a
car meet season is going to be difficult, regardless of
where you are on the pit lane, and I think
we have to give him time to get used to
the car and to get confuntable into it and to push.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It here we Tennis player Lulu Soon has been dealt
a horror drawer at Wimbledon, last year's surprise quarter finalist.
We'll meet check world number forty five Marie Bushkova in
a tough first round match. If she jumps that hurdle,
her likely second round opponent will be world number one
Arena Sablenka. And the Queensland State of Origin team could

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be on the lookout for a new fallback after Calen
Ponger failed to finish in Newcastle's twenty two eighteen NRL
loss to Canberra. Mandy Punt the Tigers twenty eight ten.
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